Heath Robinson's Home Front sees the well-loved cartoonist working in
collaboration with the writer and humorist Cecil Hunt. Together, they
offer hopelessly impractical solutions to some of the most perplexing
problems of the day. Pity the poor Briton advised to play his weekly
bridge tournament while wearing a gas mask, the gardener who substitutes
a complex configuration of magnets in the shortage of simple pea-sticks,
or the motorist who must find a way to power her vehicle without
gasoline. The result is an amusingly idiosyncratic celebration of the
British population's remarkable ability to "make do and mend."
Heath Robinson was a household name in Britain, and millions of readers
around the world continue to thoroughly enjoy his cartoons today. A
classic military-themed compendium, Heath Robinson's Home Front will
be a favorite with fans of the cartoonist's complicated, fanciful
contraptions.